Dirk Ivens is a Belgian musician and performer in the
industrial music genre.
Career
In 1978 he started as singer and guitar player in the punk band Slaughterhouse but left the group after one year to form the new band The Few. In 1980 he formed the electronic band
Absolute Body Control, influenced by
Suicide
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Risk factors for suicide include mental disorders, physical disorders, and substance abuse. Some suicides are impulsive acts driven by stress (such as from financial or ac ...
,
DAF, and British artists like
Fad Gadget. After going through various members, Absolute Body Control soon settled as a duo with Ivens and Eric van Wonterghem.
In 1985, Absolute Body Control joined forces with Marc Verhaeghen's band
The Klinik and Sandy Nys' The Maniacs to form the "
supergroup" Absolute Controlled Clinical Maniacs. The name was soon shortened to
The Klinik; Nys left in 1986 and van Wonterghem in 1987 to work on their own bands, while Ivens remained a member until 1991, when he left to concentrate on his solo project
Dive which had numerous releases the following 15 years.
Also in 1996, Dirk started
Sonar
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together with Patrick Stevens, who left in 1998 to be replaced by long-time collaborator (and brother-in-law) Eric van Wonterghem. In 2003-2005 he rejoined Marc Verhaeghen in
The Klinik for a few festival concerts, without releasing any new material.
Record labels
In the early eighties, Ivens founded Body Records initially as a vehicle for releasing Absolute Body Control music (hence the name "Body"). After starting with The Klinik, Ivens started receiving unsolicited submissions from groups around the world which he used to create and release compilations. Through Klinik's label association with Antler records, Ivens secured a distribution deal to license Body Records releases which did not prove lucrative.
In the meantime, Ivens continued to receive submissions from bands, but feeling that the deal with Antler was not viable he decided to begin a new label, Daft Records. Under Daft, Ivens released his solo output as Dive, as well as
Esplendor Geometrico, Master/Slave Relationship, and Hybryds among others.
Ivens also worked for the Belgian KK Records label and had close contacts with
Ivan Iusco's Minus Habens label in Italy.
Discography
Collaborations/split releases
*''Fuck, Rinse, Repeat / Burn'' digital Single with Jenn Vix (self released by Jenn Vix, 2013)
*''Go (Bring It) Back'' single-sided 12" with Agent Side Grinder (Kollaps Records, 2014)
References
External links
Daft RecordsDirk Ivens at DiscogsBand page on Facebook
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Belgian industrial musicians
Electronic body music musicians